Trailer - LOOP_0152
Posted by Kevin Ouellette at 3:46pm on Thursday, July 23, 2009
Filed under: Drama, Sci-Fi, Future releases, Trailer Updates
I’m guessing this one is pretty far into independent film territory considering I’ve never heard of any of the actors involved, but I’m a sucker quirky time-related dramas. LOOP_152 seems to borrow liberally from the plot of Groundhog Day, but instead of Bill Murray casually repeating the events of a full day, a young university student keeps repeating the same 2 hours over and over again as she frantically tries to figure out her situation.
Atsumi Nogami plays a girl named Kana who’s working through the night to finish a report due the next day. Suddenly there’s an earthquake followed by a strange flash of light and she notices time has somehow jumped backward from 4:01am to 1:52am. She discovers that she’s trapped in a time loop that keeps repeating itself. Can she find a way to escape this anomaly?
LOOP_0152 will be get two late show screenings at Theater Tsutaya on Saturday, September 19th and Sunday, September 20th with Nogami and director Takayuki Hatamura in attendance. See this link for details (Japanese).
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Tags: atsumi nogami, atsuya tamaichi, daisaku otsuka, kenji tanaka, loop 0152, makiko moro, masahiro nakajima, takayuki hatamura, tomomi fukui
Comments
oh yeah Shiki-Jitsu… they weren’t really experiencing the same day though. She was just pretending she was because her life sucked and she didn’t want to face it
definitely. it sure felt a li’l groundhoggy with her daily routine and “tomorrow’s my birthday” reminder every 10 mins. cute little film, though. loop looks interesting.
I’d presume that the success of Lost in Japan influenced this flick, considering how the fifth season went.
Well, Japan is usually at least 10 years behind Hollywood (certain horror genres excepted)- I’m still waiting for the inevitable rash of Japanese Philip K. Dick movies. I can’t wait to see the Japanese version of “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.” I’m pretty sure it is going to blow my mind. I’m just wondering if it will do so in a good way, or in a bad way.
The time loop thing has been done to death (and actually I am hearing anime fans bitch about its use in a well-known series.) But I think there’s still some fertile ground there. I mean- if I were stuck in a time loop I would get bored with doing illegal and suicidal things and… well, what would I do then? Groundhog Day offers one answer, but I think there are other possible answers to that question. I hope that this movie offers an alternative answer.
feels a bit like the film Ritual, in which shunji iwaii stars as the lover-friend of a young lady who experiences the same day over and over again. seen that one? Hideaki Anno directed. i’ve been praying for a region 1 release forever.